EPISODE
The Cowra Breakout - Season 1
In August 1944, 1104 Japanese prisoners of war at the Australian POW camp at Cowra stage a mass breakout. Four guards are killed in the escape, and 231 prisoners die by wounds sustained or suicide, while 334 prisoners are recaptured over the subsequent nine days.
1964, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
March 16, 1965 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1941, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
29 April 1940, Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
1949, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1957, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
January 14, 1955 in Tokyo, Japan
20 September 1960, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1968 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1957 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
13 February 1958, Peekskill, New York, USA
31 July 1956, Western Australia, Australia
17 January 1927, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
